After attending the “Call Me (Come Back Home): Fighting the Cost of Prison Calls, Part 1 & Part 2” poet Rebecca Preston began processing this poem-in-progress at the National Conference for Media Reform. Watch this beautiful mind go!

Greetings from inside the belly of the beast.

Whatever your story is we need you to share it? Do you think the cost of prison phone calls makes your community safer? Have you been directly impacted by high-costs? We need to know. Call now at 877-410-4863 FREE. (press-3).

2,500 people concerned about stopping Mass Incarceration rallied with us on Boston Common this cold and rainy April afternoon.

A woman calls in to talk about the rates she paid ten years ago and her concern for families, and specifically children, being cut off from their loved ones.

HEARD interns Rita Torres & Alexandre Dubsky explain how the Community can support equal communication access for all deaf, hard of hearing, speech impaired prisoners and their family members. On December 28, 2012, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to address the long-standing issue of high prison telephone rates. […]

Host Gloria Taylor Edwards & C0-Host Shirley T. Burke on WCLM 1450 AM. Guest commentators Terry Dysick, of Guidance, Inc and Keith Wm. DeBlasio, of Smart on Crime Solutions. The topic: The U.S.Incarceration Issues/The Business of Incarceration.

On Friday February 1st, 60 people attended a public hearing on prison telephone rates in New York City co-hosted by Rainbow PUSH Coalition and the Campaign for Prison Phone Justice. Take action: http://org2.salsalabs.com/o/6220/c/1313/p/salsa/web/common/public/content?content_item_KEY=10784